November 6, 2026 Patrick Ahanor Nigerian News 0 The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, has attributed the kingdom’s ability to frustrate attempts to re-loot returned Benin artifacts to divine intervention and prayers. The monarch said the palace relied…
Why should you study a-level history? History as a concept is one of the most tangible ways to connect with the past but history as a subject is one of the most insightful and exciting ways to learn about it.
A family’s fear of losing its sons to military conscription in the Ottoman Empire set in motion a journey that would eventually produce one of Ghana’s longstanding automotive businesses, Japan Motors Trading Company. More than a century after his grandfather…
The building was the largest and richest church in medieval Nubia, according to Archaeology News Online Magazine, which reported the latest results from the dig on November 4. During the last excavation season, the crew uncovered a monumental staircase leading into…
The 1950s and 1960s are remembered as the ‘golden years’ when the Syrian community numbered several hundred families and concentrated itself in the capital. A significant number of women interviewed described ‘living like queens’ in this period, facilitated in large part by…
Seventy-seven objects belonging to the Kallawaya people, including human remains, are also set to be received by the Archaeological Museum in La Paz, Bolivia. The Swedish government is set to return 40 sacred artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria,…
In this post, Dr. Laurent Dubois shares about his experience as a 2026 Philip Lee Phillips Fellow in the Geography and Map Division, examining maps related to the history of French settlement in North America between the early 16th and early 19th centuries.
ONLINE EMBARGO 00.01 GMT, 05/11/26 An Iron Age British king was actually female, reveals new research. The study shows that Verica, who was central to the Roman invasion of Britain in A.D. 43, was in fact a woman. Verica was ruler of the Atrebates,…
Ejisu will use a new December festival to raise money for the Yaa Asantewaa Museum, left unrestored since a fire in July 2004. Nana Yaa Asantewaa II, Paramount Queen Mother of Ejisu, says successive governments have left the Yaa Asantewaa Museum…
Nairobi [Kenya], November 5 (ANI): The High Commission of India in Nairobi has launched a special oral history podcast series titled 'The Bharat Connection: Living Memories, Shared History' to document the lives and journeys of prominent and inspiring figures from the…
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